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Aristotle Quotes - Page 51

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That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

Government, Law, Principles

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

Men, Excellence, Aristocracy

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Men, Good Man, Use

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

Wisdom, Men, Use

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Slave, Reason, Enough

Aristotle (2008). “Politics”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Words Of Wisdom, Principles, Substance

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

Future, Heaven, Substance

Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Heavens”, p.48, Aeterna Press

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

Brother, Children, Father

Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.27, Princeton University Press

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Life, Nature, Preparation

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Government, Names, Generic Name

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

Law, Organization, Office

Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.273, Collector's Library

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Soul, Mind, Impossible

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Good Life, Men, Race

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2103, Princeton University Press

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Men, Perfect, Good Man

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Giving, Soul, Body

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

Government, Cities, Evil

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Soul, Division, Common

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

Would Be, Citizens, Body

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

Summer, Winter, Quality

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3166, Delphi Classics

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Men, Views, Sake

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

Men, Animal, Numbers

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Science, Demand, Logic

Aristotle (2009). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.4, OUP Oxford

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